THE GREATEST BRITISH DETECTIVES - Ultimate Collection: 270+ Murder Mysteries, Suspense Thrillers & Crime Stories (Illustrated Edition)
270+ Classic Crime TalesBy Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, Annie Haynes, R. Austin Freeman, H. C. McNeile, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Morrison, Ernest Bramah, Victor L. Whitechurch, Thomas W. Hanshew, J. S. Fletcher, Rober Barr
Length672h 37m
About this audiobook
This capacious illustrated anthology surveys the formative richness of British detective fiction through more than 270 murder mysteries, suspense thrillers, and crime tales. Ranging from clue-centered puzzles and scientific detection to urban adventure, psychological menace, and tales of international intrigue, it charts the genre's movement from Victorian sensation toward the sophisticated popular fiction of the early twentieth century. Celebrated investigations involving the consulting detective, the priest-detective, and the forensic specialist stand beside less familiar but revealing experiments in atmosphere, procedure, and criminal ingenuity. Its contributors represent a remarkably varied cross-section of British and Anglo-British popular writing: journalists, lawyers, antiquarians, humorists, adventure writers, and masters of the short story. Collectively, they helped establish the conventions later associated with the Golden Age—fair-play clues, recurring investigators, eccentric amateurs, professional expertise, and the restorative logic of revelation—while retaining links to imperial romance, Gothic unease, and the expanding modern city. Their distinct social settings and narrative tempos make detection a lens on class, technology, law, and public anxiety. Ideal for students, scholars, and devoted mystery readers, this volume offers an exceptional opportunity to compare voices, methods, and literary forms across a broad historical field. It rewards both selective reading and sustained study, fostering a lively dialogue between canonical detectives and overlooked practitioners of crime fiction.
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length672 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 6, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE GREAT BRITISH DETECTIVES - Boxed Set: 270+ Thriller Classics & Murder Mysteries (Illustrated Edition)
2THE GREATEST BRITISH DETECTIVES - Ultimate Collection: 270+ Murder Mysteries, Suspense Thrillers & Crime Stories
3Sherlock Holmes
4A Study in Scarlet
5Part I. Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.
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6I. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
7II. The Science of Deduction
8III. The Lauriston Gardens Mystery
9IV. What John Rance had to Tell
10V. Our Advertisement Brings a Visitor
11VI. Tobias Gregson Shows What He Can Do
12VII. Light in the Darkness
13Part II. The Country of the Saints
14I. On the Great Alkali Plain
15II. The Flower of Utah
16III. John Ferrier Talks with the Prophet
17IV. A Flight for Life
18V. The Avenging Angels
19VI. A Continuation of the Reminiscences of John Watson, M.D.
20VII. The Conclusion
21The Sign of Four
22Chapter I. The Science of Deduction
23Chapter II. The Statement of the Case
24Chapter III. In Quest of a Solution
25Chapter IV. The Story of the Bald-Headed Man
26Chapter V. The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge
27Chapter VI. Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration
28Chapter VII. The Episode of the Barrel
29Chapter VIII. The Baker Street Irregulars
30Chapter IX. A Break in the Chain
31Chapter X. The End of the Islander
32Chapter XI. The Great Agra Treasure
33Chapter XII. The Strange Story of Jonathan Small
34The Hound of the Baskervilles
35I. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
36II. The Curse of the Baskervilles
37III. The Problem
38IV. Sir Henry Baskerville
39V. Three Broken Threads
40VI. Baskerville Hall
41VII. The Stapletons of Merripit House
42VIII. First Report of Dr. Watson
43IX. The Light Upon the Moor
44X. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
45XI. The Man on the Tor
46XII. Death on the Moor
47XIII. Fixing The Nets
48XIV. The Hound of the Baskervilles
49XV. A Retrospection
50The Valley of Fear
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